Archives?

What? Not only have I had a blog for several months without losing interest, but I've actually been posting. I actually have archives! I'm amazed at my own tenacity, or lack of outdoor hobbies. Not only am I amazed at myself, I'm amazed with you. You're obviously just as bored as me!! Some people have actually linked to me.

I haven't felt this special since I helped organize our 10 year reunion and never got any credit for it (not that I'm bitter at all....f ing cheerleaders.). Seriously, I ran an alumni website for several years, tracked people down, and set up an online registration and payment form for the ASB class prez, and when she stood to make a speech at the reunion, thanked about 8 other people (Okay, maybe a little bitter).

Which reminds me, I need to set that website back up. I used to host several sites, and they all got wiped by my web hosting provider about a year and a half ago, but that's a much longer story. The point is, I really need to set that site back up because it was fun seeing all of the students reconnect and hear their stories. But I won't leave you. I could never turn my back on all 3 faithful readers....

Friends abound

Hey, I gripe about being alone and look what happens. Medic guy is taking us to dinner tomorrow for being s nice to him when he got here. Big J up and moves here and we hang out the day he flies in. A Canadian from my gaming clan, (which is semi-dormant since the one game we all played most kinda went to the wayside) visited with his wife. I drove them around sightseeing one day, and we had a picnic with another clan member last Sunday. Medium sized J invited us up for BBQ in Hale'iwa.

Suddenly, I'm not so alone :)

Big J reaffirmed some feelings that I've had for a while. San Diego was a great place to grow up, but it's gone to crap. We're both happy to have lived there, and happy to be gone. I miss my friends and family that live there, but I have no major yearnings to return to far-south L.A. / northern Tijuana. They can keep the smog, traffic, ever swelling population, drought, and illegal aliens all to themselves. Granted, those are problems most major US cities are facing, but it's so different from what it was 20 years ago that it just disgusts me. I'm not saying that it's an overall bad place, but given the decision there are much more desirable places to live. Here, I can drive down the highway and see beautiful greenery. If you see that in So Cal - it's landscaped & irrigated (with water stolen from the Colorado).

Usually, I can kick back during lunch on the lanai (patio) of somebody's house that I'm working on. Often I can see the beach and the beautiful reefs, occasionally you can see gray whales jumping out of the water, and sometimes its clouds kissing the peaks of near-vertical 3000' Ko'olau mountains jutting out of the jungle....
...and think, "How can I possibly top this?"

Drifting

The other day Wife and I took a friend's brother who was new to the island out to dinner. He's a young Navy guy, and we have a lot in common. It immediately brought back a lot of feelings for me. In many ways I miss the Army. More than anything else I suppose I miss all the close friends I made there. I also miss all of my friends in San Diego and other parts of the mainland. It's been so long since I've gone out to dinner or just hung out with anyone aside from my wife or in-laws.

I love it here, but I'm in a rut. Every day I get off of work, pick up my daughter, feed her dinner, and wait for Wife to come home. Sometimes I can squeeze in a trip to the park with the dogs, but really only because they need it. I spend my time there hoping that they won't disturb anyone since its a schoolyard/soccer/baseball fields. Aside from the couple of guys at work, I don't have any friends here. I keep saying I need a hobby, and wishing Younger Daugter was older so I could do more fun stuff with her. Somehow I'm always either tied down to the dogs, the baby, or am just plain lazy/tired. Every hobby I have is either computer based or keeps me in the house. I'm in paradise, and I get to enjoy the beauty & comfort of it every day, but I still feel like I'm drifting through life. I need to find a way to make some local friends to break up the monotony.